The Big One (Part 1)

It's been a long time coming, well kinda...

After far too much work, the next MCCreations update is here! 2024.11.18 brings a large number of improvements, most of which are under the hood. Even though this changelog may look a little sparse, trust me I’ve been doing stuff! This update is the first of probably many that will primarily focus on organizing code and reworking old systems to improve the workability of the MCCreations codebase for future updates.

Visual Improvements

Although this update was primarily focused on code cleanup and improvement, many visual changes have also been made to the site. These changes should make the site more visually consistent, usable and understandable.

• More consistency with fonts and colors across pages

• Made more important stats visible on content cards without having to hover, like version and tags

  

• Added a new list view to control how you see creations

  

• Changed the look of the language switcher to make it more clear that you’re switching languages

  

• Significantly improved the look of the dashboard

  

• Removed the feed from the homepage

• Reworked navigation (might feel odd now, but trust me there’s a reason for it)

• Improve the look of tags on the search page

• Tags are now displayed on content pages and can be clicked to quickly find more similar content

Better Creation Experience

Another core part of this update is the improved creation flow, which aims to provide a more guided experience for uploading your creations to MCCreations.

• Improved the create flow, now walking users through every step of the process and hopefully making it more obvious what is required

  

• Significantly improved importing content, which now sends back progress messages to make it more clear what it’s doing

• Improved the file uploading experience with things like upload percentage

Under the Hood

As I mentioned above, the bulk of this update was work done under the hood. More specifically, reworking the entire API to use new and improved technologies while also improving organization and structure. This new API will allow us to build even more awesome tools using the tech we’ve created for MCCreations.

• Rewrote the entire backend API

  • Better management of authorization and tokens

  • Much easier system for adding new types of content

  • Much more consistent, and now documented!

• Improved the use of hooks in the frontend